The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-03-31
R0MAN,s LNRLuENoE.

It is somewhat ludicrous to note how
Gov. Eshridge, Marsh Murdoch and q
few of the other old-timers who are
unable or unwilling to keep up with
the woman suffrage procession, keep
asserting that their opposition to ladies
voting is based on the regard they bear
the sex, at the same time claiming that
there is no limit to the influence true
woman possesses over those TO whom
she is dear. Yet each and every one Of
these opponents of equal suffrage and
gallant admirers of the opposite sex
quote with great jubilance the fact that
Mrs. Gov. Martin claims that it was
her influence that caused the governor
to sign the municipal suf-
frage bill, and in all cases
they accompany the quotation with be-
Hitting remarks about the gentleman
and insinuations that the lady is the
real ruler of the state. But, if the
governor did take the advice Of his
wife, he merely did that which will
recommend him to the good graces of
nine out of ten of our thinking people.
Well would it be for many others were
they to take their wives into their
councils. A man will very seldom take
the wrong path if he has good and
true woman by his side, whose advise
he will listen to and carefully weigh.
Had our big-necked president consulted
with his beautiful, and no doubt sensi-
BILE, little wife before he put
his official veto on the dependent PEN
sion bill, there is little reason TO think
that at this hour many prayers, instead
of the opposite, would be ascending in
his behalf. AS specimen Of the argu-
ment used we give the following ex-
tract from the Wichita Eagle:
The fellows who voted for the woman
suffrage bill expecting Governor Mar
tin to veto it, failed to comprehend just
how far their action would reach even
before it reached the governor. The
Leavenworth Times says that Helen |
Cougar says that Mrs. Ida Chaless
Martin, wife of the governor, says that |
had it not been for her appeal to him |
he would have vetoed the measure"
the woman suffrage law. |
Those of our readers who believe the |
above can draw their own conclusions, |
anu JuCN Will Y.
those who don't believe it can draw
their own conclusion, which will come |
equally as natural. AS for ourself,
taking either or both horns of the di- !
lena, we are, so long as this thing |
holds, in favor of electing both the man |
and wife as governor, and so on down /
through the entire list of officers. |
Where man has no wife somebody |
elSe's wife might be chosen to help bear |
the burthens and responsibilities of the |
office. In short, the beauties of the |
new system are coming out rapidly and |
Yet, after making the above slight
ing remarks as to woman's influence |
when used in opposition to it's wishes,
the same paper quotes Senator Vest in |
a Washington correspondence as fol- |
lows: Mark the contrast:
The Post prints an interview to-day |
with Senator Vest about woman suf- |
frage. 81 am decidedly opposed" he |
he is quoted as saying, ito woman suf- |
frage, and the chief reason for my op-
position is the respect 1 bear toward |
have far too high an opin- |
ion of the sex to think that they require |
the power of voting to give them their |
proper influence in life. A true woman |
can accomplish more good in her prop
er sphere than dozen voters, and the
further she goes out of that sphere the
less good she accomplishes. What man
in his right senses would like to see his
mother, wife or daughter canvassing
for votes about election time; or max
ing stump speeches? Let him contrast
such picture with the dear womanly
woman at home, and then let him sup
port woman suffrage if he wants to. As
for myself. think there as no limit to the
inJtGence possessed by rue IoOnadn
OUer those 10 1oh0m she IS dear, and it
is not necessary for her to go to the
polls to exert it.